The Maplewood Rockets will be playing at home against the Harding Skippers at 5:00 p.m. on Monday. Both teams took a loss in their last game, so they'll have plenty of motivation to get the 'W'.
After a string of five wins, Maplewood's good fortune finally ran out on Wednesday. They suffered a rough 8-2 defeat at the hands of Pymatuning Valley. Maplewood was red-hot at the plate headed into the game (they scored no less than ten runs in the five contests prior) but Pymatuning Valley's pitchers proved too tough.
Raegan Krieg was cooking despite her team's loss, going 2-for-3 with a triple, a stolen base, and a run. She has been hot recently, having posted at least one stolen base the last three times she's played.
Meanwhile, Harding scored the most runs they've had all season on Saturday, but it wasn't enough. They fell just short of Cardinal by a score of 21-19. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game on Tuesday (ten), Harding still had to take the loss.
Having lost for the first time this season, Maplewood fell to 5-1. As for Harding, they dropped their record down to 1-3 with that loss, which was their eighth straight on the road dating back to last season.
Maplewood took their win against Harding in their previous meeting back in May of 2023 by a conclusive 14-3. Does Maplewood have another victory up their sleeve, or will Harding turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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